Ethnic Conflicts: brief outline, motives & state ‘inaction’
- 22-Jul-2022
KARACHI: Recent ethnic clashes in the wake of Bilal Kaka’s death, shortly after Eid, enveloped largely the Hyderabad and Karachi districts with nationalists setting ablaze chai dhabas of Pashtuns, warning them to retire from Sindh. In the mob violence incidents following the yawning fault-lines and amid state’s lukewarm response to put out the fire, few […]
Afghan president launches new ID cards amid row over ethnicity
- 03-May-2018
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani launched new electronic ID cards on Thursday and faced immediate opposition in his own government towards a system that has fuelled bitter rows over ethnic politics only months before parliamentary elections are due. The much delayed “e-tezkera” system, named after the local term for identity cards, is intended to reduce […]
Facebook to stop ethnicity-based targeting for some ads
- 11-Nov-2016
Facebook said on Friday it would stop advertisers from using its ethnicity-based ad-targeting feature on some ads, following criticism that advertisers could misuse the tool. The feature, intended to help advertisers reach ethnic groups with relevant ads, has come under fire from politicians and civil rights leaders for allowing advertisers to exclude users from seeing […]
Path to breast cancer care differs by race, ethnicity
- 21-Mar-2015
Breast cancer patients of different races and ethnicities may not pick surgeons and hospitals in the same way, a new study suggests.